10 Delicious Uses for Canned Beans

Next time you fry up a batch of hash brown potatoes, give them a nutritional boost with a can of cannellini beans. Added near the end of cooking, these large, firm, ivory-colored beans blend right in with the potato chunks. They add a pleasant, slightly nutty flavor to hash browns, plus protein and a great big boost of iron. While all dry beans are a good source of iron, white beans have nearly double the iron of black beans.

Think you've done all you can with canned beans? Keep reading for more sweet inspiration.